BMC Faculty Development and Diversity Seminar

Disseminating Your Educational

Work to get Promoted

Kitt Shaffer, MD PhD FACRVice-Chair for Education in Radiology

Boston Medical Center

Professor of Radiology, BU School of Medicine

Chair, RSNA R&E Foundation Study Section

• “When teaching moves beyond intuition and personal experience to incorporate best available evidence, it can be referred to as scholarly”

Bhani, et al, 2014

What is Educational Scholarship?

• making digital slide presentations with lots of animations and sound effects?

• holding conferences using new technology?

• making a website for students?

• teaching a course with high ratings by students?

What is Education Scholarship?

• should be structured in a way that is analogous to other types of research

– hypothesis driven

– measurable outcomes

– demonstration of improvement

EM does annual review of education research publications

• excludes purely descriptive papers, 6th year

• for 2013, 43 met criteria for inclusion (of 251)

• 37 were quantitative and 6 qualitative

• 9 were experimental, 28 were observational

• 7 (16%) were exemplary in design

Farrell, et al, 2014

MedEdPortal

• venue for peer-reviewed submission of educational projects for dissemination

• www.mededportal.org

other venues

• Academic Medicine

• Advances in Health Sciences Educational Theory and Practice

• BMC Medical Education

• Journal of Graduate Medical Education

• Medical Education

• Medical Teacher

• Teaching and Learning in Medicine

Beyond description

• EXPERIMENTAL educational research

• more challenging to design and complete than traditional research

• commonest design is pre-text/post-test

• MANY limitations—inability to blind, contamination of control groups, lack of baseline data, poor testing methods, lack of long-term followup

levels of evaluation

• reaction (how much does learner like the approach)

• knowledge (how much did they learn immediately)

• application (do they use what they have learned)

• outcomes (does their learning affect patient care)

special issues in EDUCATION research

• lack of truly meaningful outcomes

– long-term knowledge should be evaluated rather than short-term memorization

– ability to apply knowledge is more important than fact regurgitation

– ultimate outcomes are more difficult to assess and may involve job success, clinical effectiveness (patient outcomes!)

Other forms of Educational Scholarship

• websites

– consider including in CV, if used outside BMC/BUSM

– provide data for extent of dissemination: hit rates, reviews, listing of who is using

Other forms of Educational Scholarship

• Educational guidelines

– shows national reputation

– push to publish, or disseminate via national organizations

– need to document IMPACT

Other forms of Educational Scholarship

• Curricula

– must be used outside home institution

– similar to website, document who is using, reviews or comments from teachers or learners

Other forms of Educational Scholarship

• Question writing for national tests

– must be used outside home institution

– similar to website, document who is using, extent of involvement

How to best display your Educational Scholarship in your CV• BE CREATIVE!

– Start with CV template

– Add new categories as needed

– Add tables, other ways to organize and document

‘Innovation Table’

• If you are doing innovative teaching, consider emphasizing it by adding an Innovation Table

• Put in whichever section makes the most sense for your particular situation

– Consider columns like ‘type of learner’, ‘number of participants’, ‘description of innovation’, ‘reviews/comments’

BUSM does not use a Teaching Portfolio

• However many schools do, and there are many examples online

• Consider looking at them for ideas of other types of educational information to include

• Try to summarize and keep it short, so it does not make your CV too long or confusing

• excellent and VERY complete examples:http://www.aur.org/Secondary-Alliance.aspx?id=278

Think about what you are MOST PROUD of…

• make sure this is emphasized in your CV

Conclusions

• Educational scholarship takes many forms

• Use the BUSM CV template as an initial framework

• Think about what you consider your most significant educational contributions outside BUSM, and be sure they are emphasized

• For non PubMed types of scholarship, be sure to include as much data in support of impact as you can

References

• Critical appraisal of Emergency Medicine education research: the best publications of 2013. SE Farrell, GJ Kuhn, et al Acad EM 2014;21:1274.

• Education scholarship in emergency medicine part 3: a “how-to” guide. F Bhani, A Cheng, et al. CJEM2014;15 Suppl1:S13.

• Evaluating and writing education papers compared with noneducation papers. AM Kelly, Acad Radiol 2012;19:1100.

Some Lessons Learned

December 6, 2016

Daniel P. Alford, MD, MPHProfessor of Medicine and Assistant Dean of CME, BUSM

Director, Clinical Addiction Research and Education Unit, BMC

BMC Faculty Development and Diversity Seminar

Disseminating Your Educational Work to get Promoted

Some Strategies That Helped Me Get Started…

• Go to national meetings/conferences

• Join interest groups, task forces, list serves

– Collaborate with other doing education projects

– Volunteer to lead a workshop, an update, a precourse

– Evaluate the educational program (pre-post)

– Present the evaluation as an abstract at a national meeting

– Submit the education program description and evaluation as a manuscript

• Identify a mentor who can give you feedback on your curricula, evaluation tools, abstracts, papers

Make it Count More Than Twice…• TEACHING EXPERIENCE AND RESPONSIBILITIES:

– Course Director and Faculty, Chief Resident Immersion Training (CRIT) Program Addiction Medicine: Improving Clinical and Teaching Skills for Generalists Clinical Addiction Research and Education (CARE) Program, Section of General Internal Medicine

• CURRICULUM DEVELOPED:– Addiction Medicine: Improving Clinical and Teaching Skills for Generalists (Course

Director), Chief Resident Immersion Training (CRIT) Program, Clinical Addiction Research and Education (CARE) Program www.bumc.bu.edu/crit funded by NIDA

• ABSTRACTS PEER REVIEWED:– Alford DP, Bridden C, Samet JH. Promoting opioid risk management among generalist

physicians. Oral Presentation – The Society of General Internal Medicine (SGIM) 32nd

annual meeting, Miami Beach, FL, May 2009

– Alford DP, Bridden C, Samet JH. Promoting opioid risk management among generalist physicians. Oral Presentation – Association for Medical Education and Research in Substance Abuse (AMERSA) Bethesda, MD November 2009

• PEER REVIEWED ARTICLES

– Alford DP, Bridden C, Jackson AH, Saitz R, Amodeo M, Barnes HN, Samet JH. Promoting substance abuse education among generalist physicians: evaluating the Chief Resident Immersion Training (CRIT) program. J Gen Intern Med. 2009; 24(1):40-47

Some Quotes I Find Helpfultaped to my office wall

• “The secret of getting ahead is getting started” (Mark Twain)

• “The perfect is the enemy of the good” (Voltaire)

• “It will not be easier tomorrow” (me)